Announcing new mbr class in newspaper?
 

I was looking at some back issues of the Penn State paper, and had forgotten that the sororities announced their new member class in ads in the paper - probably because they traumatized me by not spelling my name correctly :D

It brought back memories of how difficult it was to see your rush crushes go elsewhere, and how frustrating in the years when a sorority wasn't doing as well in recruitment ("Wow, x has 28, y has 23, and we only got 16!)

Is this still done?

Not every sorority does this on my campus, but mine did after we were initiated and it was such a pleasant surprise!

They do it at Ole Miss too. It's fun to see which PNMs went where!

my sorority put in a small ad welcoming the new members, i have it cut out and in the scrapbook. two of the fraternities also put in ads. i don't think the other two sororities do it, though. its a small school with 3 sororities and 80ish pnms so you know where everyone went.

we also get a letter from the president of one fraternity congratulating us on our membership.

Yes, and I believe it's called the sunshine law down here.

Totally kidding.

At Duke all the sororities always did pledge class lists (I don't remember fraternities doing it). The campus newspaper also does an article with a chart of results for all the sororities and fraternities after recruitment!

At Cal they never did the lists, while I was an advisor there anyway.

IU still does it.

At my school, chapters that missed quota often made up additional names to look like they hadn't...you often saw names of actives, or the occasional "Cameron Diaz" pledging a chapter.

Cornell sororities use to do it. I always thought it was cute!

Doesn't UofI have quotas normally upwards of 50? Do people seriously sit there with the paper counting each pledge class to see who did and didn't make quota??

Most interested sorority members would know who did or did not make quota in formal rush, er, recruitment, wouldn't they? We always did.

[QUOTE=LionTamer;1533323]I was looking at some back issues of the Penn State paper, and had forgotten that the sororities announced their new member class in ads in the paper/QUOTE]

I know that I see a lot of these sorts of ads just prior to (or immediately following) initiation. As far as seeing where your rush crush went and who got who, I think that Facebook is more popular than The Collegian for that.

Yes. :o

And I used to love those ads too, we used to put them in for everything! Pledge classes, seniors graduating, sisters going away for internships, congratulations for awards, thank yous to other houses participating in our philanthropy, to greek week partners, etc. They were so cute!

UF did it while I was there. And they would do it again for new initiated classes. I do not think all sororities did- but many did place ads.

Some of my sisters and I had a good laugh when we found a scrapbook from years ago with Collegian cut-outs of all of those sorts of ads! There were literally ads for EVERYTHING... you really don't see that too much here, anymore.

I use to see non-greek groups sending 'personals' to one another that were really ads for their events.

"Hey John - Will you be at the Campus Center Movie on Thursday at 7pm in the Auditorium? I will! Love, Jenny" you get the idea..

I thought these & the greek ads were great! They showed a lot of 'spirit'!

The majority of sororities at WVU still do this.

some bgsu sororities used to run their lists right after pledging, submit little cryptic notes during big/lil week, and post a list again after initiation. for some groups it was simply a more general 'welcome to the sorority' or 'congrats' type little ad with their mascot.

on the extreme end their were a couple of group who posted their formal/informal events complete with a list of who everybody was taking as a date, congrats to their new exec board, and a congratulatory type ads listing things like pinnings/lavalierings and engagements.

to each their own i guess...

This was pretty cheesy, but back in the day, at least five of the people on the newspaper staff were greeks. They had a running "soap opera" in the Personals, starting with something like "If you're in Professor KnowItAll's 11am class, have blonde hair, and wore green yesterday, I'd like to talk to you." It went on for weeks prior to Recruitment. They'd make plans, then one of them couldn't make it, one of them transferred out of the class - all that nonsense. It was like those old Folger ads. The two finally met at a fraternity party, then went to a sorority formal, etc. It was truly one of the most read items in the paper, and there was a noticable growth in PNMs.

And yes, we always published the names of our New Member classes. Every sorority also had a name for their class, such as the QT Quota Class, or the Electric Eleven. We (as in ADPi) only published first names, though, as we considered more an invasion of privacy.

That is something I would definitely be concerned about. Some chapters nowadays post all kinds of members information on their chapter websites (full names, home towns, birthdays, email addresses, etc etc)


But I digress ;)

Because of the funky way we had Quota when I went through Ru.. Recruitment, counting in each ad really was the only way you'd find out how many new members each sorority took. It was also the only way you'd find out who went where.

Oh, and t*p, we'd put a last initial, if there were a lot of women with the same names. I can remember one page of ads with literally every sorority having at least one Amanda! (Amanda A., Amanda B., Amanda C....)

I think it's a cute idea. My sorority never announced its pledge class in the newspaper (nor did any group at my alma mater), but my small hometown newspaper sometimes prints individual announcements when girls join sororities. Small southern town, pledging sororities=big deal.

I remember looking through my chapter's archives and wishing we still announced our pledge classes like they used to--I saw articles from the 20s up until the 60s. I think it's a good idea and it makes the new members feel even more privileged. Plus, it's a lovely keepsake. I like traditions like this!!!

At my school the NPCs did not announce thier NMs in the school paper (I don't think the school would allow), but some (we only had 4) would make fliers with the NMs names on it and post them around campus.

I don't think I'd want my name on some flyer around campus, but an article welcoming the new member class would be nice :)

The sororities here at Idaho place ads in the Argonaut with the names of new members, but I don't ever recall seeing a fraternity ad. All of the papers statewide (and the Spokane paper since it has a North Idaho edition), will have an announcement of kids from their towns and where they pledged, including men and women. The University of Idaho is HUGE on press releases, and things about students get sent to hometown papers all the time.

Sororities at UGA used to take out ads to welcome their new sisters after initiation. I don't know if they still do this.

your location is hilarious.

/end hijack

and yet is true....i work out of a trailer.....

frightening (I'm a teacher, too--but we had trailers at my former high school)

if only it were a double-wide..alas, it's only a single-wide.

a single-wide with the latest in technology--2 non-working computers, a call-box to the front-office, no closed-circuit tv or phones.
But i have an overhead screen this year! woo-hoo!
/hijack

Some sororities at my college did it which was cool b/c I always wanted to know where people in my rush group ended up, solved that little mystery lol.